Modern warfare

Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy.

World War II was the defining event for a generation of Americans.

Between 1941 and 1945 more than 110,000 American marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors were taken prisoner by German, Italian, and Japanese forces.

As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France.

The outlook for a victory by the Allied Powers was in doubt in 1942.

The Purge of the Thirtieth Division by Major General Henry Dozier Russell is the only known written work by any of the eighteen National Guard division commanders mobilized in1940 and 1941.

When the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939 most observers expected a walkover.

In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his forces routed within little more than a month of the launch of the Soviet counteroffensives of the winter of 1942-1943.

Timothy Lomperis knows the Vietnam War, both as a soldier and as a scholar.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both "e;brilliant"e; and "e;monumental.

The confrontation between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II was defined by incalculable suffering, destruction, casualties, and heroism.

The previously overlooked story of how the labor of Black GIs helped win the war and advanced racial integration in the US armed forces.

Where was God when six million died?

Where was God when six million died?

While much has been written about the Nazis' panzers, comparatively little is known about the armored vehicles in service with the other Axis armies.

Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator's perceptions of war and foreign threat.

In the Allies post-war analyses of the Nazis defeat, the weakness and incompetence of the German intelligence services figured prominently.

In 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II.

When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed close at its heels.

Choice Outstanding TitleIt was one of the most ruthlessly conceived and executed invasions in the annals of warfare.

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Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives.

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Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II.

James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies.

The Royal Navy's operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no 'phoney war' at sea.

After the German and Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Krak w, fell under Nazi occupation in an administration which became known as the 'General Government'.

The Blitz- the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian Britain during World War II- was a formative period for British national identity.

What characterised women's international co-operation in the interwar period?

Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II.

For the nine months of the Blitz, London was subjected to a brutal and indiscriminate bombing campaign, aimed for the first time in history at shattering the resolve of a nation.

During World War II, Britain enjoyed spectacular success in the secret war between hostile intelligence services, enabling a substantial and successful expansion of British counter-espionage which continued to grow in the Cold War era.

In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950.

The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war.

Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned.

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30 million died on the Eastern Front.

A powerful and unique study of the realities and long-term impact of occupation, "e;Mussolini's Greek Island"e; reveals the Italian dictator's imperial vision, the mechanisms of Italian occupation and its tragic consequences.

In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created.

The invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in March 1939 helped to precipitate Europe's descent into World War II sis months later.

In the years following World War II, the allies occupied a shattered Germany.

Winston Churchill, the great wartime leader and peacetime Prime Minister, is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century.

When Eagles Dared is a salute to the men and women who participated in World War II and the filmmakers who have immortalised their stories on screen.

World War II marked a pivotal point in the history of Cyprus, yet surprisingly, this period of the island's history has been little studied to date.

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic.

In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories.

This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak.